FRONTINUS

(Sextus Julius Frontinus)frŏntīˈnəs, fl. a.d. 74, Roman administrator and writer. As governor of Britain from a.d. 74 or a.d. 75 to a.d. 78, he reduced the Silures, a rebellious tribe in SE Wales, and pacified Britain within its borders; it was this work, successfully done, that probably rendered possible the achievements of Frontinus' successor, Agricola. From his experience as curator aquarum, or water commissioner, he wrote De aquis urbis Romae, which treats exhaustively of the water supply of Rome, with complete descriptions and history of the aqueducts. He also wrote the Strategematica, which is important as a guide to Roman military tactics and strategy.

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books on: Frontinus  - 431 results

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Greek and Roman Military Writers: Selected Readings
Book by Brian Campbell; Routledge, 2004
Subjects: Greece--History, Military--To 146 B.C--Sources, Military Art And Science--Greece--History--To 1500--Sources, Military Art And Science--Rome--History--Sources, Rome--History, Military--265-30 B.C--Sources, Rome--History, Military--30 B.C.-476 A.D--Sources
Frontinus, Stratagems 1.9.4 (Caesar deals with a mutiny) 72 Frontinus, Stratagems 1.10.2 (Sertorius leadership) 73 Frontinus, Stratagems 1.11.6 (Epaminondas inspires his men) 74 Frontinus, Stratagems 2, Preface (battle stratagems...
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Ancient Rome: City Planning and Administration
Book by O. F. Robinson; Routledge, 1992
Subjects: City Planning--Rome, Municipal Corporations (Roman Law), Municipal Government--Rome
...the care of the aqueducts, of which Frontinus says there were two: one of around 240...within and outside Rome, described by Frontinus as the guardianship of the aqueducts...either the aquarii or the public. 54 45 Frontinus 116. 46 Circitores (inspectors...
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Handbook of Ancient Water Technology
Book by Örjan Wikander; Brill, 2000
Subjects: History, Ancient, Hydraulic Engineering--History
...during the Republic, as Sex. Iulius Frontinus, imper- ial Water Commissioner in Rome...of Rome . 47 An ancient law quoted by Frontinus (Aq. 94.3), certainly dating from...falls to the ground from the basin. 48 Frontinus went on to specify that even so, water...
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Ancient Mathematics
Book by S. Cuomo; Routledge, 2001
Subjects: Mathematics, Ancient
...author in the Corpus is Julius Sextus Frontinus, a general, four times a consul, an...stratagems, and on aqueducts. When Frontinus took up the job as water supervisor...abuse took place with impunity because Frontinus staff, the water-men, regularly profited...
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Nerva and the Roman Succession Crisis AD 96-99
Book by John D. Grainger; Routledge, 2002
Subjects: Emperors--Rome--Biography, Nerva--Emperor Of Rome--Ca. 30-98, Rome--History--Antonines, 96-192
...The obvious nominee is Sex. Julius Frontinus, who was to be ordinarius with Trajan...might create such an obligation. In 98 Frontinus was in office by 20 February, and so...the gap between Nervas resignation and Frontinus assumption of the office, was Cn. Domitius...
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Hydraulic Engineering and the Study of Antiquity: Rome, 1557-70
Journal article by Pamela O. Long; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Bacci, Andrea--Works, Floods--History, Floods--Italy, Hydraulic engineering--History, Physicians--Works, Rome (Ancient state)--History, Tiber River--Environmental aspects, Tiber River--History
...water throughout the city. Following Frontinus and other ancient writers, Bacci provides...city boundaries, the ancient author Frontinus in De aquis urbis Romae had stated that...two aqueducts in the crucial text of Frontinus, and continues: "The charge was entrusted...
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Mandrake from Antiquity to Harry Potter
Journal article by M. Van Den Berg, M. Dircksen; Akroterion, 2008
Subjects: Ancient medicine, Classical literature--Criticism and interpretation, Harry Potter Series (Series)--Criticism and interpretation, Mandrake--Health aspects, Mandrake--Portrayals, Mandrake--Usage, Medicinal plants--Portrayals, Medicine, Ancient
...Thackeray 1928:557). FIGURE 4 OMITTED Frontinus (c. 40-103) wrote that Hannibal...fights against the rebels in Africa (Frontinus Strategems 2.5.12). Maharbal knew...Olms-Weidemann. Bennet, C E 1925. Frontinus: Strategems. Loeb Text. London: Heinemann...
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Milton's Military Heaven Revisited
Journal article by Ronald Bedford; AUMLA : Journal of the Australasian Universities Modern Language Association, 2006
Subjects: English literature, Epic literature, Literary criticism, Milton, John (1608-74), Poetry
...such as Machiavellis The Art of War, Frontinuss Stratagems, and Wards Animadversions, and required Edward Phillips to read Frontinus, Aelians Tactics, Polyaenuss Stratagems of War, and works of Xenophon often cited by military theorists, Cyropaeata and...
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The Subject of America: History and Alterity in Montaigne's "Des Coches."
Journal article by Timothy Hampton; The Romanic Review, Vol. 88, 1997
Subjects: America--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Civilization, Western--History, Essay--History, Montaigne, Michel de--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...of its moral implications, is, of course, one with a long history in Renaissance and classical discourse on war, from Frontinus to Machiavelli. (35.) This question of the relationship between figuration and the representation of the other has been...
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Ecclesial Mysticism in the 'Spiritual Exercises' of Ignatius
Journal article by Michael J. Buckley; Theological Studies, Vol. 56, 1995
Subjects: Mysticism--Analysis, Spiritual exercises--Literature, Spirituality in literature--Analysis
...1989) 3-25. These beginnings of modern warfare were heavily indebted to a reading of such classical authors as Julius Frontinus and Claudius Aelianus, and to a retrieval of the Greek and Roman strategy and tactics which rang the death knell for the...
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The New Futurists
Magazine article by Aimee Welch; Insight on the News, Vol. 17, January 15, 2001
Subjects: Bishop, Peter--Practice, Brown, Arnold--Practice, Creative thinking--Analysis, Forecasting--Study and teaching, Halal, William--Research, Molitor, Graham T.T.--Research, World Futures Society--Membership
...on the threshold of rocket mail." * Much earlier, but with equally erroneous confidence, Roman engineer Sextus Julius Frontinus said in the first century, "Inventions have long since reached their limit and I see no hope for further developments...
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Forecasts That Missed by a Mile
Magazine article by Laura Lee; The Futurist, Vol. 34, September 2000
Subjects: Prophecies--Analysis
...Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further developments." Roman engineer Julius Sextus Frontinus, A.D. 10. "Thats an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?" President Rutherford B. Hayes...


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newspaper articles on: Frontinus  - 3 results

 
 
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The Leader of the Resistance to a Mighty Empire Who Was Revered in Wales - and Also Respected in Rome
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), March 22, 2011
...or 75 when Tacitus tells us that the then governor Julius Frontinus "subdued by force of arms the strong and warlike nation of...or on the borders of Wales. After overcoming the Silures, Frontinus ordered construction of the legionary fortress of Isca, modern...
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TOMORROW: Welsh History Month Continues with Llywelyn the Great - Early Devolution?
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 20, 2010
Subjects: Archaeology
...effectively for so long! Roman occupation Eventually, however, they were defeated. Tacitus wrote that the governor Julius Frontinus finally defeated the Silures, overcoming "the valour of his enemy and the difficulty of the terrain", in about AD75...
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Romans
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), September 21, 2006
...This is partly because the legions were called away to deal with Boudica and her rebellion. New governor Sextus Julius Frontinus was credited with the successful campaign, and it was he who established Isca Silurum beside the River Usk at Caerleon...


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encyclopedia articles on: Frontinus  - 2 results

 
 
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Frontinus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FRONTINUS (Sextus Julius Frontinus)fronti n s, fl. a.d. 74, Roman administrator and writer...successfully done, that probably rendered possible the achievements of Frontinus successor, Agricola . From his experience as curator aquarum...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...were imitated. Among the most original poets were Martial and Juvenal , celebrated for their satiric writings. Petronius , Frontinus , Pliny the Elder , Pliny the Younger (see under Pliny the Elder ), and Tacitus were the chief writers of prose; Suetonius...


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